5. At p. 181, The Tragedy of Philotas. London: Printed &c. *

6. At p. 257, Hymen's Triumph. A Pastorall Tragicomedie, presented at the Queene's Court in the Strand, at her Majestie's magnificent entertainement of the King's most excellent Majesty, being at the nuptials of the Lord Roxborough.

7. At p. 325, The Queene's Arcadia. A Pastorall Trage-Comedie, presented to her Majesty and her Ladies by the University of Oxford in Christ's Church in Aug. 1605. †

8. At p. 403, The vision of the Twelve Goddesses, presented in a Maske the eight of January, at Hampton Court by the Queene's most excellent Majesty and her Ladies. I

9. At p. 421, The Tragedie of Cleopatra:

Ætas prima canat veneres, postrema tumultus.

ART. VII. Poems by Michael Drayton, Esquyer. Collected into one volume. Newly corrected MDCXXXVII. London: Printed for John Smethwick. In an engraved title-page by Marshall, with Drayton's head at top. pp. 487. 12m0.

These poems consist of, 1. The Barons' Wars. 2. England's Heroical Epistles. 3. The Legend of Robert Duke of Normandie. 4. The Legend of Matilda. 5. The Legend of Pierce Gaveston. 6. The Legend of Great Cromwell. 7. Idea, containing sixtythree Sonnets. Why the historical poem of the Battle of Agincourt is left out, does not appear.

First published 1602, 12mo.-1605, 4to.-1611, 12mo.
Published following year, 16:6, 4to.-1611, 12m0.

Printed by Waterson, 1594, 12mo.-1599, 4to.-1611, 12mo.

ART.

ART. VIII. The Battailes of Crescey and Poictiers, under the fortunes and valour of King Edward the Third of that name, and his sonne Edward, Prince of Wales, named the Black. By Charles Aleyn. Printed by Tho. Harper, &c. 1633.*

This is the 2d edition-the first was published in 1631.

ART. IX. The Historie of that wise and fortunate Prince Henrie of that name the Seventh, King of England. With that famed battaile fought between the said King and Richard III. named Crook-back, upon Redmore, near Bosworth. In a poem by Charles Aleyn. + Printed for Tho. Cotes. 8vo. 1638. ‡

ART. X. The Reign of King written in Seaven Bookes.

command.

Henry the Second,
By his Majestie's

Invalidas vires Rex exutat, et juvat idem

Qui jubet; obsequium sufficet esse meum.

AUSON.

London: Printed by A. M. for Benjamin Fisher, dwelling in Aldersgate streete at the signe of the Talbot. 1633. Sm. 8vo.

These articles are thus placed here, that they may illustrate each other by way of juxta position. Of Daniel and Dray.on it will be necessary to say very little, as they are well known, and have lately been reprinted in Anderson's Poets. In matters of taste it is neither my wish nor would it be possible to convince;

This title is copied from Oldys's article of Aleyn in Kippis's Biogr. Brit. my copy having lost the title-page.

Aleyn also published "The History of Euryalus and Lucretia," translated from Æneas Sylvius. 8vo. 1639.

Athenæum, No. 23, (Novr. 1908) p. 422.

but

but, I confess, my own preference of Daniel to Drayton is decisive. If the language of the latter is less abstract, that of the former is more pure, perspicuous, fluent, pointed, and original; it abounds in a stream of the most acute moral reflections, often expressed with surprising force and felicity, the result of a discriminative head constantly exercised in meditating on all the variety of human affairs, and constantly arranging those meditations till they were ready with all their shades of difference at his call. But all these nice and masterly operations of the head would have been little, unless they had received a vivifying effect from the spirit of a feeling, warm, and virtuous heart. It is said that he is too much of an historian, rather than a poet. But does not Drayton, who makes this charge, * fall into the same defect?

I will select a short specimen from each on similar topics; the presages of death felt by K. Edward II. and K. Richard II. which are very favourable extracts of both poets.

"Edward II. at Berkeley Castle. By Drayton. Baron's Wars, Cant. V. st. 40, &c.

40.

"Thus they to Berkeley brought the wretched King,
Which for their purpose was the place fore-thought.
Ye Heavenly Powers, do ye behold this thing,
And let this deed of horror to be wrought,

"Amongst these, Samuel Daniel, whom if I

May speak of, but to censure do deny,

Only have heard some wise men him rehearse

To be too much historian in verse;

His rhimes were smooth, his metres well did close,

But yet his manner better fitted prose."

Drayton's Epistle to Reynolds of Poets and Poesy.

That

That might the nation into question bring?

But, O, your ways with justice still are fraught!

But he is hap'd into his earthly hell,

From whence he bade the wicked world farewell.

41.

They lodg'd him in a melancholy room,

Where through strait windows the dull light came far,

(In which the sun did at no season come)

Which strengthen'd were with many an iron bar,

Like to a vault under some mighty tomb,
Where night and day waged a continual war;
Under whose floor the common sewer past,
Up to the same a loathsome stench that cast.

42.

The ominous raven often he doth hear,

Whose croaking him of following horror tells, Begetting strange imaginary fear,

With heavy echoes, like to passing bells:

The howling dog a doleful part doth bear,
As tho' they chim'd his last sad burying knells:
Under his cave the buzzing skreech-owl sings,
Beating the windows with her fatal wings.

43.

By night affrighted in his fearful dreams,
Of raging fiends and goblins that he meets,
Of falling down from steep rocks into streams,
Of deaths, of burials, and of winding sheets,
Of wand'ring helpless in far foreign realms,
Of strong temptations by seducing sprites;
Wherewith awak'd, and calling out for aid,
His hollow voice doth make himself afraid..
44.

Then came the vision of his bloody reign,
Marching along with Lancaster's stern ghost,
Twenty-eight Barons, either hang'd or slain,

Attended

Attended with the rueful mangled host,
That unreveng'd did all that while remain,
At Burton-bridge, and fatal Borough lost;

Threat'ning with frowns, and quaking every limb,
As though that piece-meal they would torture him.

45.

And if it chanc'd, that from the troubled skies

The least small star through any chink gave light,
Straitways on heaps the thronging clouds did rise,

As though that Heaven were angry with the night,
That it should lend that comfort to his eyes;
Deformed shadows glimpsing in his sight,
As darkness, that it might more ugly be,
Thro' the least cranny would not let him see.

46.

When all th' affliction that they could impose
Upon him, to the utmost of their hate,
Above his torments yet his strength so rose,

As though that Nature had conspir'd with Fate;

When as his watchful and too wary foes

That ceas'd not still his woes to aggravate,

His further helps suspected, to prevent,

To take away his life, to Berkeley sent.

47.

And to that end a letter fashioning,

Which in the words a double sense did bear, Which seem'd to bid them not to kill the King,

Shewing withal, how vile a thing it were;

But by the point g was another thing,

And to dispatch him bids them not to fear:

Which taught to find, the murderers need no more,
Being thereto too ready long before.

48. When